If you don’t know what TED Talks are go here.

Anyway the TED Talks people have added an Educational section, TED-Ed, which has gained a fair bit of attention.

“This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED’s, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.”

New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into ‘Flipped’ Lessons –  Nick DeSantis

The Problem with TED-EDShelly Blake-Plock

TEDed

It basically allows people to add quizzes about videos.  It’s a useful resource but, like the Khan Academy, it is just a resource not a learning strategy.  “Flipping” a class is much more than a video and questions.